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EMBEDDED ARTS FORMOVEMENT RETRAINING

Lise Worthen-Chaudhari

Description

Embedded Artsis an interactive computer programdesigned as a rehabilitation biofeedback tool. Thepurpose of the system is to tap into artistic andcreative neural pathways during performance ofstandard rehabilitation exercises. Using real-timedata from biophysical sensors, the programintegrates creative process within rehabilitationprotocols by translating movement into art.

Therapy and Neurorehab

“This ability of our neural wiring to reroute whengiven the right stimuli can be a powerful agentfor recovery and has, since the 1980s,emerged as the most promising phenomenonfor facilitatingneurorehabilitation.”

Nudo

&Dancause

(2007)

in Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practices

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MABD7sYplkk

Purpose

•enable patients to create fun, individualizedimages that would be

aesthetically andkinesthetically satisfying, but that would alsorepresent a patient's personal healing throughthe process of activity-based medicine.

•This project has been partially funded by the College of Arts & Sciences,Department of Dance, Department of Physical Medicine andRehabilitation, and the Medical Center Alumni Association at The OhioState University.

Network and Dodd Inpatient clinics at OSUWMC, my children and myhusband, Dr.Ajit

Chaudhari.

Design constraints

•Action painting aesthetic

“…shifted the emphasis from the object [of art] tothe struggle itself, with the finished painting beingonly the physical manifestation, a kind of residue,of the actual work of art, which was in the act orprocess of the painting’s creation.”